Motor vehicle door

US5987821A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Wagon Automotive GmbH · FR

Inventors

• Gunther Heim · Obertshausen, DE
• Stephan Schutt · Goldbach, DE
• Jurgen Hock · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Thomas Scherbaum · Forchheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 25, 1997
• Grant date: Nov 23, 1999
• Expiry date: Sep 25, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J10/75
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle door having a door frame (2; 2') and a covering (3; 3'; 3"; 36) attached to the outer side of the door frame. To accomplish that the outer covering (3; 3'; 3"; 36) of the vehicle door can be mounted on the door frame (2, 2') easily, quickly and economically and that it can be replaced in a simple manner, the covering (3; 3'; 3"; 36) is positioned on the door frame via a horizontal sliding movement. For this purpose, the door frame (2, 2') is respectively provided with a respective horizontal guide rail (9, 13) on its side facing the top and bottom edge region (6, 11; 11') of the covering (3; 3'; 3"; 36) into which guide rail the bent-back portions (8, 12) of the corresponding U-shaped edge regions (6, 11) of the covering (3; 3'; 3"; 36) are engaged.